Reverse Dictionary: VEHICLE SALES

NOUNS
► BIRDCAGE a used-car dealer’s display yard, enclosed by a wire fence → 1981 N.Z. colloq. (Bk.)
► DIP SHOP in the used car business: a small finance company with very high interest rates that will offer loans to customers who might not otherwise qualify for financing → 1975 US sl.
► FACELIFT in the used car business: the procedure of turning back the miles on the odometer (mileometer) → 1997 US sl.
► HAIRCUT a lowering of the true mileometer/odometer reading of a motor vehicle to increase its retail value → 1990 NZ sl.
► PACK in the used car business: a fixed amount that is added to the price the dealer has paid for the car → 1975 sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAREFOOT PILGRIM a trusting car buyer who questions nothing; a gullible or uninformed customer → 1980 US car sales usage
► B-BACK a potential customer who say he or she will return but clearly has no intention of doing so → 2006 Amer. car salesmen’s sl., derogatory (Bk.)
► BIRDCAGE BOY a used-car dealer → 1981 N.Z. colloq. (Bk.)
► CURBSTONER in the used car business: a dealer who operates with low overheads and a small inventory → 1968 US sl.
► MICE a term for car customers → 1994 US sl., mildly derogatory (Bk.)
► MOOCH in the car sales business: a customer who thinks that with arithmetic skills, a calculator, and his sharp mind, he can outsmart the salesman → 1975 US sl.
► MOUSE in the used car business, a customer or potential customer → 1968 US sl.
► WAIF in car sales: an inexperienced buyer → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WOOD DUCK a customer who is believed to have little likelihood of making a purchase, esp. at a car salesyard → 1988 Aust. sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
► THERE’S AN ASS FOR EVERY SEAT in car sales: any car can ultimately be sold → 1982 Amer. sl.

VERBS
► BUSH in the used car business: to extract through any of a series of questionably ethical means more from a customer than originally contemplated by the customer → 1953 US sl.
► PACK THE PAYMENT in new car sales: to make a sale for a price slightly below what the customer has said what they are willing to spend → 1989 US sl.
► SKATE in the used car business: to steal another salesman’s sale → 1975 US sl.